Re: DHCP address leases

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There may be another DHCP server on the network: your DHCP server would not
take the addresses it has in a scope for clients if it is using a static
address. I have only seen this happen when someone else had a DHCP server on
the network.
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"robsco" wrote:

> Sorry there is a misunderstanding.
>
> The server has one NIC card with a static address.
> I have set up a pool of DHCP addresses for the local users.
> When the server is restarted for some reason the server takes the pool of
> addresses even though IP is set to static and assigned DHCP is disabled.
> The problem this causes is that the local users have no spare addresses to
> be assigned to them.
>
> "steveharper" wrote:
>
> >
> > Assuming by "localhost" you are refering to the DHCP server. Why do you
> > need to have 10 static addresses on the server? A DHCP server can't
> > have a dynamic address anyway. So, set it to like 192.168.65.200 or
> > something.
> > Not really sure what it is you are asking for here, but I would remove
> > those static addresses from the server, and configure all workstations
> > to use DHCP. In the DHCP server release the addresses that are "in use"
> > and then renew addresses on the workstations.
> >
> > robsco wrote:
> > > *I am running server 2003 with a DHCP pool of 192.168.*.201 -
> > > 192.168.*.210
> > > across our network of 65 sites, where * is the site number.
> > > On one of our sites the DHCP scope address leases are taken up by
> > > the
> > > localhost, but the localhost IP address is set as static and not
> > > dhcp
> > > assigned.
> > >
> > > Help would be grateful. *
> >
> >
> >
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